iStorage Server: Working with Linux

iStorage Server is a network based storage virtualization software powered by KernSafe Technologies, Inc. Being a powerful, full-featured and software-only iSCSI Target SAN solution, that can quickly convert existing Windows computer into IP SAN. Storage media of iSCSI Target can include existing storage devices such as the entire hard disks or partitions, CD-RWs, tapes and USB storage devices, as well as disk image file or CD image files including ISO9660(,iso), .bin, .mdf, .cdi, .b5i, .nrg, .ccd, .sub, .img, .raw and other image file formats. Furthermore, iStorage Server also supports a lot of features such as: VHD (Virtual Hard Disk), snapshots, STPI, RAID-1 and failover, these features are very important and poplar in storage industry world and make iStorage Server is suitable for any size of business.

Linux is an operating system -- very much like UNIX -- that has become very popular over the last several years.

This article demonstrates how iStorage Server works with Linux. Such powerful combination will expand the application scope of your Linux server and workstation, thereby enabling WINDOWS server to expand the storage of your Linux computer. It also allows you to directly use the storage devices of the existing Windows server for Linux Server. With IP SAN solution provided by iStorage Server, you may install application and server software, as well as store data required wish you like. Your Linux computer’s storage can be expanded in the following 3-most-commonly-used ways:

• Use Virtual Image File Disk Device to create a file-based virtual storage device for Linux, this allows quick data migration and backup.
• Directly use the physical disk or partition of Windows server. This enables you to make good use of resource. No additional configurations, just add the storage media to iSCSI Targets.
• Use CD/DVD/RW bridge device or Virtual CD/DVD to map physical CD/DVD drives or CD/DVD image files (iso, .bin, .mdf, .cdi, .b5i, .nrg, .ccd, .sub, .img, .raw) on your Windows server to CD/DVD devices on Linux.

After iStorage Server 2.0, it supports server side mirroring, synchronous replication and failover which allows user to create a high-availability iSCSI SAN for Linux.

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